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In mere days, you’ll crawl out of your hole, shower, wash your clothes and open your eyes wide for the first time in months. It burns! The sun! Pain! Society! All that jazz. Jazz! Then, you’ll realize. It’s summer! Oh no. It’s summer. Shhh. There there. Tuck away your worries. You don’t have to spend

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This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, student actors from Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s will take to the stage and bring contemporary playwright Sarah Ruhl’s “The Clean House” to life. Director Brynn Alexander, a senior Film, Television and Theatre major with a concentration in Theatre, chose to stage “The Clean House” after reading the script over

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“O, wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there here! / How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / That has such people in’t.” This “brave new world” comes to life in the Not-So-Royal Shakespeare Company’s spring production, “The Tempest.” Filled with magic, sea storms and spectacle, “The Tempest” is the story of Prospero,

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After the release of his first studio album in 2014, George Ezra jetted off to Barcelona to craft his follow-up. Forgoing glamorous hotels and glitzy lodgings, Ezra found his inspiration renting an Airbnb from the Tamara of the album’s title. The album, “Staying at Tamara’s,” embraces the warm, relaxed feeling of summer travel lending every

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Colin Meloy and his group of Portland, Oregon, storytellers are back. No strangers to clever and complex folk, The Decemberists decided to take a new approach on their latest release. “I’ll Be Your Girl,” the group’s eighth album in 17 years, invites producer John Congleton on board and the result is a new sound for

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Vance Joy is no longer the same starry-eyed boy “scared of dentists and the dark,” as he describes himself on his recently-released sophomore album, “Nation of Two.” The Australian singer-songwriter maintains his signature acoustic simplicity and combines it with unique, personal narratives to craft songs that stand out for their upbeat, infectious sound and light,

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Joey Burns and John Convertino — the Arizona natives that make up the band Calexico — look to the arid landscape they call home for their ninth album’s inspiration. Recorded in California, “The Thread That Keeps Us” draws on the unique environmental, social and political issues faced by the American Southwest. The result is an

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James Mercer takes his listeners down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass with The Shins’ latest album. “The Worm’s Heart” — released mid-January of this year — is a flipped version of the group’s 2017 release, “Heartworms.” In this alternate universe of Mercer’s making, slow songs become fast, fast become slow and the

1. Kendrick Lamar — “DAMN.” By Owen Lane Since April, a thought has been haunting the minds of many music fans: “When, if ever, will an album come along that can dethrone ‘DAMN.’?” Its existence impacted the way all following music releases have been received. Such is the incredible power of Kendrick Lamar at only

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Fever Ray — the solo project from the Knife’s Karin Dreijer — surprise released “Plunge” in late October on select streaming services. “Plunge” is Fever Ray’s second studio album. Nearly nine years since the release of her self-titled first project, “Fever Ray,” “Plunge” strikes the listener as a bold exploration of Dreijer’s artistic evolution as